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VB Hornet 09-12-2025 02:23 PM


Originally Posted by ClappedOut145 (Post 3948560)
Actions have consequences. I am sure Andrew will be suspended for a bit and will end up keeping his job. He’s an ALPA status rep and will have a lot of resources to help defend him. His comments along with others on the left are uneducated and quite disgusting.

I hope you are wrong. I can't imagine working with him or the public knowing that he was flying a jet.

11atsomto 09-12-2025 02:23 PM


Originally Posted by AirportJunkie (Post 3948561)
Kirk’s stance and any stance allowing unfettered and unrestricted use of the 2nd amendment puts you, me, very ironically him at greater risk of getting unnecessarily murdered by someone who has no record with a gun.

This is AIRLINE PILOT CENTRAL and The Title of this Thread is NOT: Charlie Kirk good or Bad? It's: LAX rep social media rant.......and thats kinda why we are talking about it

I m going to be honest, prior to this week I had no idea who Charlie Kirk was, I also had no idea the name of the LAX LEC vice chairman was. As of Friday Friday evening I know both of these things.

I still don't really know much about Charlie Kirk other than the news has called him a "right wing activist" or a "conservative activist"......so let me ask you if a "left wing activist" was assassinated, and an LEC rep posted something similar as AS..........do you think they'd ever fly a plane with a blue globe on it again?..........


I think WE ALL know the answer to that question, so I don't see why the outcome should differ.

Andy 09-12-2025 02:25 PM


Originally Posted by AirportJunkie (Post 3948561)
Kirk’s stance and any stance allowing unfettered and unrestricted use of the 2nd amendment puts you, me, very ironically him at greater risk of getting unnecessarily murdered by someone who has no record with a gun. Until many of you can realize that there are far to many guns in the US, acts like this will continue to happen.

The UK outlawed firearm ownership (except in certain circumstances). Google 'Ronan's Law' to see where banning firearms leads.
A particular type of weapon is not the problem. Just ask Iryna Zarutska's family if she'd still be alive if for a ban on firearms.

DogPit 09-12-2025 02:25 PM


Originally Posted by AirportJunkie (Post 3948563)
Nice cliche. There is plenty of data pointing out that the number of guns is clearly a problem.

It is not a cliche at all. Show all your data.

FriendlyPilot 09-12-2025 02:27 PM


Originally Posted by 11atsomto (Post 3948566)
so let me ask you if a "left wing activist" was assassinated, and an LEC rep posted something similar as AS..........do you think they'd fly a plane again?

He'd never fly again. There is a double standard. Leftists called for Trump to be burned, killed, and numerous other things his entire first term and none of them were removed from Twitter. Milo said one of the women in Ghostbusters was a terrible actress and called her an "Ape"and he was permanently banned immediately. There are two standards and we all know it.

tengssuuciurta 09-12-2025 02:27 PM


Originally Posted by PopperLover (Post 3948556)
it was already answered in my original comment. You guys should learn to read.

Interesting username choice.

ClncClarence 09-12-2025 02:30 PM


Originally Posted by DogPit (Post 3948562)
Yes, this wouldn’t have happened if guns were illegal. Guess we should make murder illegal too and maybe this wouldn’t have happened.

I own several firearms, support the second amendment, have gone hunting, have a CCW, and am a member of the ‘special club’, but when I hear this argument I can’t help but cringe because it’s insanely obtuse and intellectually dishonest.

Name a single other ‘western’ nation that has outlawed guns where things like this happen. To pretend like our culture in this country as well as the lax laws around firearms do not contribute to the problem is insane.

There’s a happy medium somewhere but neither side is actively looking to find it.

FriendlyPilot 09-12-2025 02:45 PM


Originally Posted by DogPit (Post 3948562)
Yes, this wouldn’t have happened if guns were illegal. Guess we should make murder illegal too and maybe this wouldn’t have happened.

Remember how we stopped the drug epidemic by making drugs illegal?

DownSideUp 09-12-2025 02:48 PM


Originally Posted by ClappedOut145 (Post 3948560)
Actions have consequences. I am sure Andrew will be suspended for a bit and will end up keeping his job. He’s an ALPA status rep and will have a lot of resources to help defend him. His comments along with others on the left are uneducated and quite disgusting.

I will never fly with Andrew. More importantly, how could anyone fly with this guy knowing that he may hate everything about you and want you ‘un-alived’? I’m not willing to take that risk (and neither should UAL).

FriendlyPilot 09-12-2025 02:53 PM


Originally Posted by BlueScholar (Post 3948576)
So just to be clear the official United Airlines and ALPA stance is to honor, defend and lionize the person who said “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” (– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024), but if you speak out against that person you will be fired?

Make it make sense!

TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT. Just like Trump called white supremacists "very fine people".

The context is that he's saying OTHER people will think that. He immediately says after saying this when asked about what he though about this Kirk says "that's not who I am. That's not what I believe."

He then says "it also creates unhealthy thinking patterns. I don't wanna think that way. And no one should"

If you have listened to him at all you'd know none of this is true. He's just not super left, so obviously he's a "white supremacist" LOL.

Taxes are too high? Must be a white supremacist.

Government is too big? Also white supremacy

Voter ID. Clearly white supremacy.


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